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"Donate some money to charity"

Go on. There's over 20,000 people been killed in Asia by that earthquake, the death toll will probably rise to twice that, and there'll be over a million people homeless when the tides have calmed down. A million people homeless. The UN reckon it'll cost in the billions to recover from this tragedy.

So what are you going to do today? Are you going to sit on your backside playing your PS2 or Xbox, complaining that you didn't get what you wanted for Christmas? Are you going to go and spend money you didn't earn on DVDs, CDs and games in the January sales?

Why not give a little bit of money to something that matters, it'll make you feel better. £10, £20, whatever you can afford. Don't just ignore this thing, they need all the help they can get.

20,000 people dead.
A million people homeless.
[URL]http://www.oxfam.co.uk/what_you_can_do/give_to_oxfam/donate/asiaquake1204.htm[/URL]

I'm fully aware this is very preachy and I don't normally do this kind of thing, but a million people homeless? Ignoring it would be criminal, right?

monkey_man wrote:
> It's odd, because it's not immediately obvious how people died. Not a
> comparison, but the World Trade Centre thingy had planes and
> explosions, Beslan had guns and explosions...this was an earthquake
> and some water - how devastating can that be!?
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Tsunami.
It's not a couple of waves lapping a beach, it's a wall of water hitting without warning that snatches people from the beach and roads.
A report showed how the water level rose to the 2nd floor of a coastal hotel.
"how devastating can that be?"

Sri Lanka: 18,706 dead
Indonesia: 27,174 dead
India: 4,371 dead
Thailand: 1,400 dead
Maldives: 52 dead
Malaysia: 44 dead
Burma: 30 dead
Bangladesh: 2 dead
Somalia: 100 dead
Kenya: 1 dead
Seychelles: 3 dead
Tanzania: 10 dead

It's odd, because it's not immediately obvious how people died. Not a comparison, but the World Trade Centre thingy had planes and explosions, Beslan had guns and explosions...this was an earthquake and some water - how devastating can that be!? Now they'll get disease over there too, that's gonna be a b*stard to cope with, and I doubt the tourist industry will recover from this for at least a decade.

I can't get my head around the scale of this thing, it's absolutely incredible.
Got no flippant remarks, no sarcasm, no satire.

I already give money to Oxfam every month but I gave an extra tenner, to ease my middle class conscience.

Was gonna buy a new PS2 pad but i guess they need it more! I'll just make do with my dodgy analogue stick.

I read on the teletext earlier that it'd risen to an estimated 40,000. Christ...

Already done it, but I'm not telling you how much ...


EDIT: ... and I gave to The British Red Cross, not Oxfam.

Go on. There's over 20,000 people been killed in Asia by that earthquake, the death toll will probably rise to twice that, and there'll be over a million people homeless when the tides have calmed down. A million people homeless. The UN reckon it'll cost in the billions to recover from this tragedy.

So what are you going to do today? Are you going to sit on your backside playing your PS2 or Xbox, complaining that you didn't get what you wanted for Christmas? Are you going to go and spend money you didn't earn on DVDs, CDs and games in the January sales?

Why not give a little bit of money to something that matters, it'll make you feel better. £10, £20, whatever you can afford. Don't just ignore this thing, they need all the help they can get.

20,000 people dead.
A million people homeless.
[URL]http://www.oxfam.co.uk/what_you_can_do/give_to_oxfam/donate/asiaquake1204.htm[/URL]

I'm fully aware this is very preachy and I don't normally do this kind of thing, but a million people homeless? Ignoring it would be criminal, right?